Editors' Choice 2023
The Deutsche Grammophon recording of Carl Nielsen's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies – with Fabio Luisi conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra – was voted Gramophone's 2023 Recording of the Year...
8 Dec 202329min
Maria Callas: we celebrate La Divina on her 100th anniversary
The soprano Maria Callas was born on December 2, 1923, and during her short life – she died aged 53 – rose to become one of the most celebrated singers of all time. And even 46 years after her death ...
2 Dec 202329min
Errollyn Wallen on her new book 'Becoming a Composer'
Composer Errollyn Wallen speaks to Hattie Butterworth about her new book, out now on Faber, mapping her trajectory as an artist, extensive recordings and philosophy on life. Errollyn Wallen: Becoming...
1 Dec 202335min
John Pickard on Mass in Troubled Times
Composer John Pickard joins the Gramophone Podcast this week to talk to Editor Martin Cullingford about his new album, Mass in Troubled Times, available on the BIS label. See omnystudio.com/listener f...
24 Nov 202334min
Bertrand Chamayou on his John Cage-Erik Satie album
Bertrand Chamayou, who won Gramophone's Recording of the Year in 2019 for his Erato album of two Saint-Saëns piano concertos, has turned his attention to two groundbreaking composers. John Cage was a ...
17 Nov 202328min
Richard Bratby on his history of the Academy of Ancient Music, Refiner's Fire
The music critic and regular Gramophone contributor Richard Bratby has just published a history of the Academy of Ancient Music, Refiner's Fire, the first book telling the story of a period-instrument...
10 Nov 202332min
Fauré's music for cello and piano
This week's Gramophone Podcast explores the music by Gabriel Fauré for cello and piano to coincide with a beautiful new recording by Xavier Phillips and Cédric Tiberghien on La Dolce Volta - and the c...
3 Nov 202319min
Bach's Goldberg Variations Reimagined with Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly
This week's topic is a new recording by Brecon Baroque of Bach's Goldberg Variations in a fascinating new arrangement by Chad Kelly who, together with violinist Rachel Podger, joins Editor Martin Cull...
27 Okt 202323min
